I think that there could only be limited muggle-magic connections, because few muggles have that kind of acceptance, and few magical people could ever accept muggles as equals. The wizards believing the whole wizards-are-better-than-house-elves-and-goblins-and-every-other-magical-creature thing, which is totally not true, but which some wizards firmly believed. As for the muggles, the opposition would mainly be from people like the Dursleys and those who initiated the witch burnings. There could only be limited peaceful connection between the two. Take the muggle-borns for example. There are some people like the Granger parents, who accepted the community and got on with it well, or the Evans parents, who were the same. Then theres Petunia, who just couldn't stand it, probably out of some longing for being "special" like Lily. So, in conclusion, there could never be a totally peaceful connection between the whole of the two societies, because there would be opposition as well as acceptance on both sides.

A large part of wizard-muggle negotioations would be to convince the muggles that magic really exists. And this is not only about people like Vernon Dursley! Because let's be honest: As much as we love Harry's world - if you met someone who actually claimed to be part of it, you wouldn't believe them, and for good reasons! We've got to keep in mind that we are not at all narrow-minded but absolutely right in being extremely sceptical about these things, considering how many people make a fortune by claiming to be mediums/psychics/fortune tellers/magical healers and so on. It's not that we've never heard of magic - it's just that every person who has ever claimed to have magical abilities and submitted themselves to scientific scrutiny has turned out to be a fraud. So if the real wizards and witches were to come out into the muggle world, they would have to stand up to tests that prove beyond doubt that they really can do magic.
My question to you is: How would you devise a test that shows that there is real magic at work and that excludes the possibility of cheating to an extend that it would convince you and every scientist in the world?
The James Randi Educational Foundation, an organisation that regularly exposes fraudulent pseudo-magicans, might be a good place to turn to, have a look at their procedure here: http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html

I think a very important point to consider is what the societies would gain from a coexistance. I can see that the magical world would gain ideas for new spells, potions, and so forth. But the muggle world would have less to gain. Its not like the muffles will gain an ability to do magic, and although they may have access to magical medical treatments, little else would likely change for them. When you look at how Arthur Weasley tweaked muggle objects (for example the car) I can see other instances where muggle technology could be magically altered (maybe the Internet?).

But overall, I don't necessarily see that there would be much difference. Perhaps I am not thinking big enough, but I think the two world would just end up living in the same areas, but not have much over lap in other parts of their lives. I see it as similar to when you meet someone that you have almost nothing in common with. The more adventurous would ask questions about their lives and become friends, but I think most people would have polite small talk and then forget about it (based onthe fact that most people are innately selfcentered).

So I do think they could all live together relativelly peacefully, but I don't see it bring about much change or collaboration.

i really believe there was no real agreement between muggle and wizard forces after the war, more like a meeting like the one we saw in 6 with the prime minister and the minister for magic. i think Kingsley told the prime minister about the war and how it ended and then everything kind of mellowed out and wizards could go out and fit in with society better. i think that the 4 houses still did have a little competition between them (friendly competition of course) and i would like to think that there was no divide between the houses and that they could mingle, without having the whole oh but your in slytherin kind of thing.

Let me start by saying this: I think the reason that we all love Harry's world, the wizarding world, is that it ISN'T our world. We love the idea of somewhere to escape to that is completely different. When we go there in the books not only is it like entering another world, it's like entering another time.

There are things in the muggle world that we take for granted every day such as elctricity, the post(mail) system, technology, etc. As fascinating as we find the magic solutions to these common problems, wizards equally find muggle solutions just as fascinating. Mr. Weasley is the most obvious case of a wizard who is in awe of muggle "stuff" but even Hagrid shows that he recognizes the great lengths that muggles go to since they have no magical solutions to everyday things.

I know there are those in the wizarding world (Malfoys/ Blacks-sans Sirius) who have an obvious disdain for muggles but we see early on that there are muggles who ARE aware of the wizarding world (the Dursleys) and share an equal dislike of them. I would say education is always the key to stopping ignorance but the statute of secrecy really prevents that. Hogwarts offers Muggle Studies but it is not a required course and maybe it should be.

Finally, I will close with this: I believe that the problem will continue to get better as time goes on for one simple reason. As time goes on more and more wizards/witches will have to find mates in the muggle community as lots of the "old wizard familys" are dying out. This can't help but make the problem better. There will always be those select few who will turn up their noses at "dirty blood" and would rather have their family line die out than consort with muggles. And there will always be some muggles who wouldn't ever consider being with "one of those wizarding types" simply out of fear or ignorance. In the end though, just like in Harry's story, love will win out and is a magic stronger than any biases people, wizard and muggle alike, may have.

This is tricky but I think Hagrid said it best in the beginning of book 1. If muggles knew of the existence of wizards, they would probably be badgering them all the time for a quick and easy solution to all of their problems! I know I would!

I also don't see it happening because people in our world tend to be slow to accept change. Look at how long people have been arguing for and against things like gay marriage. There will always be a group of stuffy old codgers (at least that's how I see them!) who only care about how things were back in "their day." It would be such a culture shock to introduce magic to the muggle world that I don't see it happening peacefully or smoothly.

Everyone in the comments before me have made excellent pionts; I exspecially liked AurorFlight104's. Everyone has brought up the obvious, evident, and massive differences between the muggle and the wizarding worlds. However, I would like point out the simalarities between the two.

The main one is that they are both human; simple as that. And there is a simple human need to be nowticed more, even considered "better" than their fellow human being.

Another may be that muggles and wizards alike are on the top of their perspective "food chians", if you will. Muggles have had the problem of slavery and segragation. This was only solved, in America, by the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s. Wizards have the same situation with ALL other magical creatures: the enslavement of house elvees, keeping centaures in a classification of "less than human itelligence", and not granting gobling the right to carry a want (which in itself is a huge controvercy).

So, to my point, no I do not think that the two worlds could coexistence peasefully, because each is much to used to having their own power. If the two worlds tried to mingle it would just end in tragity.

Firstly, I would like to state that I clearly took this question too seriously.

I believe there is the potential for both wizards and muggles to coexist peacefully in the future. But history has shown that this will not be an easy feat, nor will it lead to a utopian society.

Many of the previous comments note that in the books there exists prejudice on both sides. We know that the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy was created to protect wizards from persecution and harassment from muggles. We can even take real life examples (i.e. the Salem Witch Trials) to show that "magic" has often been associated with devil worship. But the books also show that wizards have just as much prejudice. Voldemort's whole campaign is easily synonymous with Hitler's "cleansing" of the races. Changes in viewpoints would have to occur on both sides before wizards and muggles could live together peacefully.

However, history shows that you cannot always solve prejudice through legislation. The US Constitution’s 15th Amendment (passed in 1870) disallowed restriction from voting based upon race. However, state’s continued to find ways to prevent African American’s from voting for nearly 100 years. Additionally, despite legislation (the Equal Pay Act of 1963) stating that men and women must be paid equal wages for the same work, there continues to be a disparity in wages. Therefore, we cannot force coexistence between wizards and muggles via legislation.

History also shows we cannot necessarily use science as a means to show that wizards and muggles are biologically the same. Craniometry—which some people have erroneously used to determine intelligence by measuring cranial capacity—has been used to both support and deny racial equality. Additionally, there is the millennia-old debate between religion and science.

I believe the only way for wizards and muggles to live peacefully will be through education. Rowling does not give much information about what is taught in Muggle Studies at Hogwarts, but we know that many wizards probably have a skewed or misinformed idea of real muggle life (i.e. Arthur Weasley). We also know that most of the muggles who know of the existence of magic are just as much uninformed (i.e. Vernon Dursley). If people don’t have an understanding of a culture, how can they make informed opinions about it?

What history has ultimately shown is that there will always be extremists—people who will never change their viewpoint no matter what. But the majority of people do have moderate viewpoints. If these people are adequately educated about the other’s culture, then the two groups could potentially live together peacefully. Of course, this is all hypothetical!

For anyone who's interested in exploring this topic further be sure to check out the James Potter fanfiction by G. Norman Lippert. His series is about the next generation of Hogwarts students and very well done. A major plot of the stories surrounds the Progressive Element, a group seeking the end of the Statute of Secrecy. My personal belief is that there could never be true equality between the magical community and muggles. With muggles forced into the role as second class citizens there would be little benefit to either group.

This is a great question to consider. I personally do not think that magic and muggle will be able to coexist. If the muggle world were to discover that magic existed, they might be fearful of them, as in the example of the Dursleys. Especially with everthing that happened in the later books with Voldemort and how his actions began to not only affect those of magic, but also the muggle world. For example, in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, the story opens with Fudge confronting the Prime Minister, because Voldemort has began to terrorize the muggle world. There is an obvious tension between the two, with the Prime Minister accusing Fudge of being a irresponsible Minister. At this point, the magic world has provided a bad first impression to those few muggles who know that magic exists. The muggle world would not want to put themselves in more danger by associating themselves with magic. Who is to say that another Voldemort could not arise in the future? The muggle world would probably want to keep themselves separated from any sort of danger. Plus, if there were people who would want both worlds to coexist, there would be those select few who would be solely against it. This can cause a sort of "war" to begin to form, which would really not benefit anyone. The union of both the magic world and the muggle world would probably cause more problems that it would benefit.

I think AurorFlight104 brings up a great point in magic and muggle cohabitation would be a little like mutant/nonmutant cohabitation. I think it is highly unlikely that wizard/muggle coexistence would work on any grand scale. Obviously it can work on an interpersonal level or there would be no halfblood children. But I think the relationship between Lily and Petunia as children is a good metaphor for coexistence on a world- or even nation-wide scale. I think there would always be that jealously on the part of the Muggles, and always that - not superiority - but a sense of being different on the part of the wizards. It would be very difficult as a muggle not to have a sort of unconscious fear, or a mentality of "Don't make them mad or they'll turn you into a bat."
I also think it would be especially hard for very young wizards to be friends with young muggles because young wizards cannot control their magic. If these children got into a stupid, young child fight and, in an emotional magical explosion, the muggle child got hurt, that would be enough to instill the fear of that child and children like them into muggle chilren.
I think that whenever two different groups try to live together there will always be differences between them. I do believe they could be overcome, but it would take a very long time.

There are lots of good points in the previous comments. I agree with PadfootsPup that things will continue to get better over time. I think there will be more interaction between the two worlds, both out of necessity (since the old pure-blood families are dying out, even if someone marries a fellow witch or wizard, it's likely that person will have Muggle relatives) and out of curiosity (as we see with Mr. Weasley wanting to know more about Muggles). On the PotterWatch radio program, we hear Kingsley Shacklebolt saying that people should not take the attitude of "wizards first" because we are all human, and I think that will be a more common view in the future. Hopefully, rather than seeing each other as being inferior or superior, people in the magical and Muggle community will come to see each other as equals, despite their differences.

There will always be people who favor discrimination and will be suspicious of each other, as we see in our own world, but I do think that things can get better so that a larger percentage of people are more accepting of one another compared to what things were like in the past. The discriminatory views in the books are clearly meant as symbolism of the discrimination we see in our own world, and I think that (like in our own world) things will never be perfect, but there will always be people who try to make things better.

The Secrecy Act of 1629 was created because they had already discovered how difficult it was to openly coexist with Muggles. Some wizards and also some Muggles would inevitably try to exploit each other for power and or profit. Human nature both share. It was the wisdom of the leadership of the day that understood that the more powerful and yet smaller population should take the high road and keep to themselves rather than use their superior power to rule over Muggledom. It is clear that some families with their pure-blood mania would be treating Muggles very badly if allowed. They tried to make Muggle hunting legal! Still there
will always be contact and intermarriage although it is considered difficult for both sides.

Personally, I think it is human nature to be afraid of things more powerful than ourselves. As stated in the question, S.S's first few chapters are a testament to the fact that Muggles are, as far as we can see, powerless against the magical world. Fear breeds hatred. We do not understand the things we fear, and again that breeds hatred. I think there might be a small number of Muggles who would be comfortable with the knowledge that there are beings with the power to enslave them with a whim. For the most part, however... I do not think the majority of Muggles could peacefully co exist with the wizarding world if they knew of it.


Please forgive any spelling and grammatical mistakes. Oh, and have a great day.

I don't think that there could be a smooth blending of magical and non magical people in the Harry Potter world. Like some other comments here have mentioned, people in our own real world can't even get along, so how would a group of people who have magical abilities be able to be accepted by those without the abilities.

Obviously it is not always the case that muggles never learn about the magical world. Wizards and witches marry muggles and clue them into the magical world. And families like the Dursley's who have magical family members but do not tell anyone else about it. I'm sure there are consequences put in place by the Minister of Magic if anyone said anything.

But why hasn't knowledge of the magical world spread more than it has already in the realm of the novel. There have been people who've learned about the magical world, probably though marriage or friendships with magical folk, but the word has not spread. This could be in part of the Oblivators, whose job it is to make sure that muggles don't remember anything they learn about the magical world.

The people of the magical world had to retreat into secrecy for a reason. They had to hide their abilities and go underground in order to live out happy lives. Even though that happened a long time ago, I am of the belief that people are no more accepting of those different than themselves than people were years ago. Or perhaps I spend too much time on the internet reading about intolerance and hate directed towards various groups of people.

If I were part of the magical world, I would want it to stay the way it was. It seems a lot easier to keep everyone else ignorant of the world's existence than to try it out again and have disastrous consequences.

I dont think there could ever be peace between muggles and wizards. Muggles will never understand wizardry and might feel threatened by them. I doubt that even the best and most kind of wizards would ever reveal wizardry to muggles.

Peace can alway be achieved if one is willing.

This question can be substituted for men and women. Can they work together and be okay in the same place, yes...most of the time. There will always be those that are no going to want to change. There are always going to be those that are boxes that you just can't open no matter how much you try. But Change is good. Change is a part of life and if you do not accept it then it is just going to be harder latter on.

Knowledge is something that we are always going to want to get, and Muggle are no different. They are going to try to find out about us no matter what. If Wizards were to start to integrate more then there would be less mayhem for the future.

on another though about this...

Say you are in a muggle community that has a muggle born and Voldemort is at large. Would you rather know about magic and know that "oh that thing he is pointing at you is not a gun it is a wand that can kill you faster!"
Me I would want to know.

Also people who have Muggle borns are going to find out, and some wizards do marry Muggles. So if you think about it Muggle do know and they have seem to grasp it well to some extent.

Separating people based on abilities is wrong. I have Dyslexia and I do not like it when people say "oh you don't have to read out loud, because it is too hard for you" or something like that. Just because I am different does not mean that I am not capable of understanding and reading a loud. just like Muggle can understand Magic with out having it. What do you think Squibs are? People born around magic with out it. They are like muggles but they just were born in a Magical family. They are a Muggle in the terms of "non magic folk" and I think Flinch understand Magic well. So why exude others?

If Finch can understand then why can't other "non magic folk"

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